Techne, based in Minneapolis, makes controls used in hospitals and laboratories to check the accuracy of blood analysis instruments. Bionostics, based in Devens, Mass., offers control products for verifying the proper operation of medical devices used for blood glucose and blood gas testing.

The acquisition is expected to be “slightly accretive” to Techne’s fiscal 2014 net earnings.

Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally acclaimed modernist architect who designed buildings including the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, and the University of Michigan Law Library, has died. He was 92.

On the floor of the Honda Center, the USA Gymnastics championships are imbued with a sense of normalcy and routine. Of tumbling runs and coaching tweaks. Of blaring music and chalk dust. Of leaps and leotards. Of the search for who's next.